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Thursday, August 23, 2018

some THOUGHTS after watching - Chi La Sow

When was the list time you watched
the strong woman character portrayal in Telugu movie? May be Chithra character in Pelli Choopulu(2016 release) , Deva Sena
/Sivagami character in Bahubali 2 (2017)? Here comes in 2018 that kind of
Independent, strong girl character played by debutant Ruhani Sharma in Chi La
Sow. Not to forget the Andala Rakshasi fame Rahul Ravindran is debutant as well as Director. The story whirls around the two different juxtaposed characters, Arjun(
Sushant) and Anjali( Ruhani). The Lead role Arjun(Sushant) tastes the scenarios bachelor hood face from
parents indeed from the society of getting married soon before 30 else the
graph of marriage proposals goes down.On
the other hand, Anjali (Ruhani) needs to get married soon (Though she do not
want to) due to complications in her life. The happiness and smile acted as a
camouflage but lot of emotions and sentiments hidden back from the character of
Anjali. There are instances in the film you laugh because of serious laugh
riots from Vennela Kishore.

For some time, let us come out
from the Movie discussion. Does the relationships and marriage really give the
perspective of life learning for happy movements? May be, but things change a lot from Pre Marriage and Post marriage
for everyone. I do not know how and where the phrase get married soon once you are settled actually started. For boy and
girl the freedom fades away and need to bow to the sick society especially
girls in the name of restrictions and pseudo norms. Come on, you have to agree this. I have read many stories and
heard the people speak in sorrow of their life incidents.Imagine a child (she) wants to plant a tree
in her home, so to plant a tree child ploughs the land, cover the seeds and
gently water daily. As the child grow, the tree grows and the child have the
smile to appreciate the nature of her living and freedom of enjoying soul. As
days passed at some other place, child have to plant the tree again. However,
things change here. You do not need to water to grow the tree. The freedom of
expression was hiding and tree has to bow to the characteristics of surrounding
atmosphere. The tree grows on its own. I know I am harsh here but sorry my
heart would not stop me to write the heartening and painful reality. Please
bear in mind not just girls but boys have the issues too. He has to float other
boat to make someone happy. Now remember these points, we will come back on
this later.

Chi La Sow, the title of the film gives many interpretations of what the
story might be. Whenever marriage topic is raised, Arjun(Hero) speaks in frustration
, as he does not want to get married soon. The hero has his dreams and passion
to enjoy the freedom of his life before getting married. When Arjun tells his
to do things in his life before the wedlock, it prompts and sparks us of what
we thought of doing? Do we have certain interests or passion to do or tour the
world? We might be. So keep awake of your dreams. Then we have another
interesting character Anjali. Anjali is a jubilant and whimsical soul yet
throws fake smile outwards (to cover the sadness and unhappiness). The fake
smile I am referring here is not actually a fake smile to the viewers. In this context,
the smile is brighter outside but lighter inside. For her this is a fake smile
as she has much agony and pain in the heart. The Characters of Chithra from
Pellichoopulu and Anjali in Chi La Sow have two things in common. Both the movies
are about Marriage and they show the tone of strong and Independent
characteristics of women. Sometimes Anjali is a confused soul. The complexities
surrounded as a wall so the love for Arjun does not get out easily for her. Such
a strong and impactful role Anjali has which is not an easy role to depict.

Arjun’s Mother (Played by Anu
hasan garu) has the worries as every other Mother will have about getting their
child married. She has the humor tone of doing the things differently. The
parents go out for dinner for the boy and girl to meet and to have a private
conversation. Two important factors here are the Arjun’s Parents enjoying the
dinner and husband and wife talk (imagination as a viewer) and giving the
ability and freedom for Arjun and Anjali to have a private space of discussion.
One particular scene where Anu hasan garu reads a book on the dining table gives the
expression of my own world spending my time. By the way, do you know the book
she was reading? It was the Last Queen
of Indiaby Michelle Moran.

Bringing the Mental health
aspects to the story will be challenging for the filmmaker. Rahul Ravindran did
his best to get the details right and hit the focus being his first time as filmmaker. Anjali’s mother (Played by Rohini garu) gave the
glimpse of 2 phases of life both Happy and Sad turbulences. On the same balcony
when there was lot of chaos and sobbing with heartening movements and later the
scene where Arjun having good laughing conversations with mother-in-law tells
something to rejuvenate from brittle things.

Now let us come back to the discussion I told you to remember earlier. Do
you think all the things go as expected? No, if that was the case why do we
have Life so complicated? Actually, Life can be Beautiful, merry and cheerful
but it is just that we are making things complicated. The freedom of
expression, the lighthearted talk, filling the gaps with love and affection,
turning the turbulences and ripples to laughable movements and that is what I
have experienced in this movie. Now you might have understand why I asked to
remember the points earlier. If you compare how we are living the heck of life
and how beautiful the Life will be if it is other way, lot of things go from complex to simple Life. Anjali is pure and
simple. In one scene, we see some sweet talk between Anjali and her grandmother
about relationships. Ok this film attempts to demystify the complex behavior.
What more I need to say? Now let me listen to this beautiful song composed by
Prashanth Vihari.